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deep frost afar Heaped seven ells high the earth lies featureless: Still
winter? still the north wind's icy breath yilai:
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shadows paleOr as he rides the steep of heavenor dips In ocean's fiery
bath his plunging car. Quick ice-crusts curdle on the running streamAnd
iron-hooped wheels the water's back now bearsTo broad wains opened
as erewhile to ships; Brass vessels oft asunder burstand clothes Stiffen
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upon the wearers; juicy wines They cleave with axes; to one frozen mass
Whole pools are turned; and on their untrimmed beards Stiff clings the
jagged icicle. Meanwhile All heaven no less is filled with falling snow;
The cattle perish: oxen's mighty frames Stand island-like amid the frost
and stags In huddling herdsby that strange weight benumbedScarce top
the surface with their antler-points. These with no hounds they huntnor
net with toilsNor scare with terror of the crimson plume; Butas in vain
they breast the opposing blockButcher themknife in handand so
dispatch Loud-bellowingand with glad shouts hale them home.
Themselves in deep-dug caverns underground Dwell free and careless; to
their hearths they heave Oak-logs and e